// TJC math leaders · challenge 01
National Day Challenge
Our nation turns sixty-one this week. Sixty-one steps from a beginning that could have gone any number of ways.
Nothing around us holds still. Find one thing that changes.
Then question and model it.
// the road so far
We began by looking
We started this journey by observing the world around us more closely. Its objects. The processes that shape it. We identified properties that defined what they are, and what they are not.
This week we turned to something deeper. Not what something is, but what it becomes. We began with the spiral, one of the oldest symbols of change there is — involution, evolution, continuous transformation.
“ The same step, taken again, on what the last step left behind. ”
// your group's why? & how?
Your Challenge
Two parts. Identify your question. Then model how they change or behave with code.
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01 · why?
Identify your Question
Find one thing that changes. Identify a key question about it which your group has been chasing. State it in one clear sentence — e.g. Why do shells often follow spiral patterns?
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02 · how?
Model with Code
Is it possible to express and represent how it changes or behaves with code? It doesn't have to be a perfect model, just make your best guess on how it begins and changes.
// then share it
The gate is sealed
Come back when the window opens. Until then, there is a world out there to watch.